Posverdad, o la narración del procés catalán desde el exterior: BBC, DW y RT

López-Olano, Carlos; Fenoll, Vicente

doi:10.3145/epi.2019.may.18

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“…However, despite not being the most common approach, several works in Spanish academia have applied surveys related to our topic of study, such as the surveys developed by Gualda and Rúas and Masip, Suau, and Ruiz-Caballero [8][9][10][11]. Many works have also focused on more specific aspects, including several studies on fact-checking activities [12,13] and media analyses [14,15]. Additionally, many recent works focused on the COVID-19 pandemic [16][17][18], following an international trend.…”

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Citizen Perceptions of Fake News in Spain: Socioeconomic, Demographic, and Ideological Differences

2021

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Although the phenomenon of disinformation and, specifically, fake news has become especially serious and problematic, this phenomenon has not been widely addressed in academia from the perspective of consumers, who play a relevant role in the spread of this content. For that reason, the present study focuses on determining how this phenomenon is perceived by citizens, as the strategies to counteract fake news are affected by such opinions. Thus, the main objective of this study was to identify in which media the perception and experience of fake news is greatest and thus determine what platforms should be focused on to counteract this phenomenon. A survey was conducted in October 2020, among the Spanish adult population and was completed by a total of 423 people (with 421 valid answers). Among its main findings, this study determined that social media platforms are the type of media in which the greatest amount of fake news is perceived, which confirms the suggestions of previous studies. Furthermore, the experienced presence of fake news seems to be primarily affected by age and gender, as there was a higher level of skepticism observed among young people and women. Additionally, the use of media seems to be positively correlated with the perceived and experienced presence of fake news.

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Citizen Perceptions of Fake News in Spain: Socioeconomic, Demographic, and Ideological Differences

2021

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“…This research has been largely limited to English and, to a lesser extent, Spanishspeaking content, whereas RT broadcasts in at least four other languages with significant global audiences including French, Arabic, Russian, and German. Studies on RT Spanish found that in Latin America the outlet serves as a soft power tool against the United States' sphere of influence, makes alliances with Argentinian and Venezuelan state television (Rouvinski 2020), and in Spain promotes pro-independent content in the Catalonian procés on Facebook (López-Olano & Fenoll 2019). From a comparative perspective, RT Spanish was found to promote far-left views in Latin America, whereas the French and German versions champion the far-right (De-Pedro & Iriarte 2017).…”

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‘Fake News’ and Other Problematic Information: Studying Dissemination and Discourse Patterns

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Hurcombe

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Encompassed by the disputed term ‘fake news’, a variety of overtly or covertly biased, skewed, or falsified reports claiming to present factual information are now seen to constitute a critical challenge to the effective dissemination of news and information across established and emerging democratic societies. Such content – variously also classifiable as propaganda, selective reporting, conspiracy theory, inadvertent misinformation, and deliberate disinformation – in itself is not new; however, contemporary digital and social media networks enable its global dissemination and amplification, by human and algorithmic actors (Woolley & Howard 2017), ordinary users and professional agents, outside of, in opposition to, or sometimes also in collusion with, the mainstream media (Shao et al. 2017; Vargo et al. 2017). Various political, commercial, and state actors are suspected to have exploited this ‘fake news’ ecosystem to influence public opinion, in major votes ranging from the Brexit referendum to national elections, and/or to utilise discourse around ‘fake news’ to generally undermine trust in media, political, and state institutions. This panel brings together a number of perspectives that combine systematic, large-scale, mixed-methods analysis of the empirical evidence for the global dissemination of, engagement with, and visibility of problematic information in public debate with the study of the public discourse about ‘fake news’, and the operationalisation of this concept by politicians and other societal actors to downplay inconvenient facts or reject critical questions. In combination, its five papers present a substantive collection of innovative approaches to the ‘fake news’ concept, exploring the dissemination of problematic information itself at larger and smaller scales as well as examining the operationalisation of the idea of ‘fake news’ in pursuit of specific ideological aims. This produces a new and more comprehensive picture of the overall impact of ‘fake news’, in all its forms, on contemporary societies.

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“…Más allá de estos grupos, cabe destacar que los gobiernos de otros países no tienen una presencia destacada, algo que quizás no coincide con las percepciones de académicos, expertos, periodistas e instituciones públicas, sobre todo en lo relativo a las injerencias rusas (Bodrunova, 2021;Demirjian, 2018), incluyendo el contexto español, como sucedió durante el procés catalán (López-Olano y Fenoll, 2019). Algo semejante sucede con las empresas que gestionan las redes sociales, responsables de aspectos como los filtros burbuja (Pariser, 2011), pero que en la encuesta no figuran entre las primeras posiciones.…”

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Mentiras, prejuicios y rechazo. El uso de la desinformación para propagar discursos de odio contra personas migrantes y refugiadas en redes sociales: un estudio articulado del caso español

Blanco Herrero

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Mentiras, prejuicios y rechazo. El uso de la desinformación para propagar discursos de odio contra personas migrantes y refugiadas en redes sociales: un estudio articulado del caso español Lies, Prejudice and Rejection. The Use of Disinformation to Spread Hate Speech against Migrants and Refugees in Social Media: A Comprehensive Study about the Spanish Case 17 frequently cited report from Gartner Group (2017) mentioned, perhaps simplistically, that by 2022 the Western public would consume more false information than true information and that there would not be enough capacity to counteract it. The year in question has arrived and, although measurement is still impossible, it seems that reality has not met the most alarmist forecasts. The problem, however, is real and its seriousness is beyond doubt, as demonstrated, for example, during the COVID-19 pandemic.Already in February 2020, before the official declaration of COVID-19 as a pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) drew attention to the need to combat the 'infodemic', understanding as such an overabundance of information -partly true and partly not-, which made it more difficult for people to find reliable information when they needed it and which posed an additional risk to the spread of the disease (OMS, 2020). Along the same lines, the Director General of the WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, affirmed that "[w]e are not only fighting against an epidemic; we are fighting an infodemic. Fake news spreads faster than the virus and is just as dangerous" (Ghebreyesus, 2020).Although the WHO, the media and a large part of academia have frequently used the term 'infodemic', many studies have focused on one of its specific aspects, disinformation (Bechmann, 2020), since the hoaxes and rumors about vaccines, treatments and the spread of the virus have not been limited to a problem of communication and public trust, but have had a direct effect on health and were even responsible for deaths (Islam, Sarkar et al., 2020).

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Posverdad, o la narración del procés catalán desde el exterior: BBC, DW y RT

Cited by 7 publications

References 17 publications

Citizen Perceptions of Fake News in Spain: Socioeconomic, Demographic, and Ideological Differences

Citizen Perceptions of Fake News in Spain: Socioeconomic, Demographic, and Ideological Differences

‘Fake News’ and Other Problematic Information: Studying Dissemination and Discourse Patterns

Mentiras, prejuicios y rechazo. El uso de la desinformación para propagar discursos de odio contra personas migrantes y refugiadas en redes sociales: un estudio articulado del caso español

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